5/9/11 Deadline: Last year was declared the worst year in a decade for women in pilot season, the crucial period when networks decide which writers' pilots to pick up. This year the earth didn't just move, it was an earthquake for women screenwriters.

5/8/11 New York Times: A new a three-year, 50-film project called “Women and Girls Lead” will put a documentary spotlight on leadership roles of women and girls and the challenges they face in the United States and worldwide.

5/4/11 Women’s eNews: A persistent myth about men suffering worse job-loss woes in this recession cries out for a few additional facts, along with Carrie Lukas' whopper in the Wall Street Journal about the end of the gender wage gap.

5/6/11 Think Progress: Earlier this week, the Supreme Court declined to review the case of a recent Texas high school student who was kicked off her school’s cheerleading squad after she refused to chant the name of a basketball player who had allegedly raped her.

5/7/11 Women’s eNews: Bin Laden's death changed little for girls and women in Afghanistan, a rights worker wrote from Kabul this week. Her words echoed the country's last-place motherhood ranking this week, which also brought sobering U.S. news.

5/4/11 CNN: Women will not be able to stand or vote in September's municipal elections, but the newly-formed "Saudi Women Revolution," movement is working to change of Saudi Arabia's discriminatory laws.

5/9/11 RH Reality Check: It’s a myth that the Supreme Court decision that controls abortion rights in the U.S. is Roe v. Wade. In fact, Roe was supplanted in 1992 by Casey v. Planned Parenthood, and now South Dakota may have just managed to ban abortion without actually banning abortion outright.

5/6/11 RH Reality Check: Norma McCorvey, a.k.a. Jane Roe, appears in "Doonby," a psychological thriller in which she plays an elderly woman who tries to talk the expectant mother out of going through with her plan. It was funded by $2 million from an anonymous donor.

5/5/11 KBC: Kenyan marathon legend Tegla Loroupe has been chosen by the International Olympic Committee as one of the six recipients of the 2011 Women and Sport Awards for her philanthropic sporting endeavors.